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title: So he hastened to depart from the fatal castle, and sought shelter i… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So he hastened to depart from the fatal castle, and sought shelter in a hollow tree, where he found a forlorn looking little Grasshopper crouching in a corner, too miserable to sing. Who acts: Peerless. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3, with its dependency
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 51

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So he hastened to depart from the fatal castle, and sought shelter in a hollow tree, where he found a forlorn looking little Grasshopper crouching in a corner, too miserable to sing.

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**Who acts:** Peerless · **What happens:** hasten, depart, seek, find, look, crouch · **To what, where:** fatal castle, shelter, hollow tree, little Grasshopper, corner

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peerless), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:36:51
# text = So he hastened to depart from the fatal castle, and sought shelter in a hollow tree, where he found a forlorn looking little Grasshopper crouching in a corner, too miserable to sing.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	forlorn	forlorn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	compound	_	_
24	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	crouching	crouch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	too	too	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten** | past | Peerless |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **depart** | to-infinitive | Peerless *not said here* |  |  | the fatal castle |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from castle=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **seek** | past |  | shelter |  | a hollow tree |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme in tree=Location |
| 4 | **find** | past | Peerless |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **look** | gerund | Peerless *not said here* | little Grasshopper |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme grasshopper=Attribute |
| 6 | **crouch** | gerund | Peerless *not said here* |  |  | a corner |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in corner=Location |
| 7 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | Peerless *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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